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but he is authorized, in the absence of special orders
to the contrary, to use force if he meets with resist-
ance from the ship, or if the ship, after having
been duly warned, should pertinaciously attempt to
escape.

30. Any officer authorized to seize or detain any
    ship in respect of any offence against the Act may,
    under section 22 of the Act, call in such assistance
    as is therein mentioned for the purpose of enforcing
    such seizure or detention.

31. Having secured the ship, the officer seizing or
    detaining her will forthwith apply to the civil
    authorities for instructions.

32. In addition to the above duties, you, like all
    other persons, will have the power, on receipt of a
    warrant under section 18 of the Act, to convey any
    prisoner to any place or places named in such war-
    rant, and to deliver him, when arrived, into the
    custody of any authority designated by such warrant.

33. In the Act, and in these Instructions, the fol-
    lowing terms are to have the meaning hereinafter
    respectively assigned to them (see section 30 of the
    Act).

"License of Her Majesty" means a license under
the sign-manual of Her Majesty, Signified by H
or
Order in Council or by Proclamation of Her Majesty.
See Section 15 of the Act.

"Territorial waters" include-1st. Ports, har-
bours, bays, mouths of rivers, and adjacent parts of
the sea enclosed by headlands belonging to the same
State. 2nd. The waters to the distance of a marine
league from the shore all along the coast of the same
State.

"Foreign State" includes any foreign Prince,
Colony, Province, or part of any Province, or people,
or any person or persons exercising or assuming to
exercise the powers of Government in or over any
foreign country, Colony, Province or part of any
Province or people.

"Friendly State" means any foreign State at
peace with Her Majesty.

"Military service" includes military telegraphy,
and any other employment whatever in or in connec-
tion with any military operation.

"Naval service," as respects a person, includes
service as a marine, employment as a pilot in piloting
or directing the course of a ship of war or other ship,
when such ship of war or other ship is being used in
any military or naval operation, and any employment
whatever on board a ship of war, transport, store-
ship, privateer, or ship under letters of marque; and,
as respects a ship, includes any user of a ship as a
transport, store-ship, privateer, or ship under letters
of marque.

"United Kingdom" includes the Isle of Man, the
Channel Islands, and other adjacent islands.

"British Possession" means any territory, colony,
or place, being part of Her Majesty's Dominions,
and not part of the United Kingdom as defined
above.

"The Secretary of State" means any of Her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

"The Governor," as respects India, means the
Governor-General or the Governor of any Presi-
dency; and where a British possession consists of
several constituent colonies, means the Governor-
General of the whole possession or the Governor of
any of the constituent colonies; and as respects any
other British possession, means the officer for the
time being administering the Government of such
possession; also any person acting for or in the
capacity of a Governor is included under the term
"Governor."

"Ship" includes any description of boat, vessel,
floating battery, or floating craft; also any descrip-
tion of boat, vessel, or other craft or battery made to
move either on the surface of or under water, or
sometimes on the surface of and sometimes under
water.

"Building," in relation to a ship, includes doing
any act towards or incidental to the construction of
a ship, and all words having relation to the building
shall be construed accordingly.

"Equipping," in relation to a ship, includes the
furnishing a ship with any tackle, apparel, furni-
ture, provisions, arms, munitions or stores, or any
other thing which is used in or about a ship for the
purpose of fitting or adapting her for the sea or for
naval service, and all words relating to equipping
shall be construed accordingly.

"Master" includes any person having the charge
or command of a ship.

34. A copy of the Foreign Enlistment Act is
    transmitted herewith.

By command of their Lordships.
VERNON LUSHINGTON.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent under "The Patents Act,
1860," dated the 15th day of May, 1871, in favour of
WILLIAM TOOGOOD,

of the City of Wellington, in the Province of Wel-
lington, Engineer, for an Invention "of a Machine
called 'Toogood's Patent Flax Machine,' for the
more perfect cleaning of the fibre of the Phormium
Tenax, China Grass, and other vegetable fibres, by
the removal of all gummy and vegetable matter
therefrom."

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent under "The Patents Act,
1860," dated the 15th day of May, 1871, in favour of
CHARLES JAMES POWNALL,

of the Manawatu District, in the Province of Wel-
lington, Flax Manufacturer, for an Invention "for
Improvements in the treatment and preparation of
the Phormium Tenax, and other similar fibrous
vegetable substances."

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
grant Letters Patent under "The Patents Act,
1860," dated the 16th day of May, 1871, in favour of
ISAAC PLIMMER,

of the City of Wellington, in the Province of
Wellington, Publican, for an Invention "of a new
and improved method of dressing and preparing
Phormium Tenax or New Zealand Flax."

W. GISBORNE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1871.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to grant Letters of Registration under "The
Patents Act, 1860," dated the 15th day of May, 1871,
in favour of

ROBERT WILLIAM THOMSON,

of Edinburgh, in the Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, Civil Engineer, of Letters Patent, dated the
24th day of October, 1867, granted in Great Britain
aforesaid, for an Invention "for an improved Wheel
for Steam Carriages, to be used on Common Roads."

W. GISBORNE.